Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 04:12:36 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: Kyrre Nygard <kyrreny@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE Message-ID: <200605160412.37036.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060516102601.02238458@broadpark.no> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060512183937.02190800@broadpark.no> <200605150654.38042.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060516102601.02238458@broadpark.no>
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On Tuesday 16 May 2006 03:30, Kyrre Nygard wrote: > > Hello Don! > > Yes it's the `make buildworld' as far as I know. > > The /etc/make.conf contains PERL_VER=5.8.7 and PERL_VERSION=5.8.7. > > Is it possible, do you think, to use a FreeSBIE CD maybe to clean out > everything on my harddrive but my /home/kyrre where all my important > files are, and then reinstall the latest FreeBSD without > reformatting? > > It might be risky, let's say I hit the wrong switch and it does > format everything, > but you get my point right? To just lay a new FreeBSD on top of an > empty harddrive? > > I hope this is possible somehow ... > > Well, take care Don! > > -- Kyrre Is /home on a slice of its own. Mine is, for the reason that if I have to blow off the system and reinstall, I can safely do that, as long as I don't make any changes to /home, just remount it as /home. You can do this with sysinstall, very easlily. Send the output from 'df', I can tell from that. Don
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